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A square homa fire pit lined with greenish-brown stone and dusted with white and red flower petals blazes at its center, with a silver bowl of liquid held over the flames. Around the pit sit small silver bowls of colored offerings, a silver cup, incense sticks and a pink flower, while a dark-red-robed person sits at the lower left and another seated figure is partly visible at the top. Silver oil lamps and a silver platform stand in the background, and a smoking earthen vessel of burning cowdung sits to the left, consistent with the page's account of Aushada purification using cowdung smoke and heat. No identifiable a person figure is clearly visible.

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